Nonlinear ocean waves and the inverse scattering transform. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alfred R. Osborne.
• Other Names: Osborne, Alfred R
• Contents: Contents Preface 1. Brief History of Nonlinear Water Waves, Fourier analysis and Integrability Part I: Theoretical and Physical Considerations 2. Theories of Water Waves 3. Introduction to Linear and Nonlinear Fourier analysis 4. The Infinite-Line Inverse Scattering Transform 5. The Periodic Inverse Scattering Transform 6. Additional Theoretical Considerations 7. Physical Perspective and Exotic Solutions 8. Extending the Inverse Scattering Transform to Higher Order Part II: Numerical and Time Series Analysis Algorithms 9. Numerical Methods for Infinite-Line Boundary Conditions 10. Numerical Algorithms for the Analysis of Nonlinear Space and Time Series 11. Procedures for the Analysis of Nonlinear Wave Data 12. Nonlinear Power Spectral Analysis Part II: Time Series Analysis of Experimental Data 13. Surface Waves in the Laboratory 14. Surface Waves in the Adriatic Sea 15. Surface Waves at Duck Pier 16. Surface Waves in the North Sea 17. Internal Waves in the Andaman Sea Part IV: Future Directions 18. Engineering Applications of IST 19. Chaotic Dynamics Nonlinear Wave Equations and Water Waves
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (944 pages)
• Subjects: 551.462; Inverse scattering transform; Ocean waves; Nonlinear waves
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080925103; 0080925103
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